Black and Brights

Recipe for a Black and Bright Lap quilt, sure to bring cheer to anyone who gets to use it:

Take a gloriously bright jelly roll:

Add a few more brights from the stash:

Combine with a mysteriously mottled black batik:

Sew like a crazy person until you can put together a few blocks and see how it will all turn out:

Satisfied that you won’t go blind when looking at the finished quilt, continue sewing until you end up with this:

The pattern came from this book:

Jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott